New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 2 |
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The bonfires were only one feature in the festivities of this season , though I have given them precedence because in their very nature they point out the pagan origin of the whole . A yet more striking part of the Midsummer pageant was ...
The bonfires were only one feature in the festivities of this season , though I have given them precedence because in their very nature they point out the pagan origin of the whole . A yet more striking part of the Midsummer pageant was ...
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The ARTEMISIA , Mugwort , or Motherwort , was also a Aubrey in his usual summer on St. John's ceremonial plant of the season . gossiping vein tells us , " the last Day ( 1694 ) I accidentally was walking in the pasture be- hind Montague ...
The ARTEMISIA , Mugwort , or Motherwort , was also a Aubrey in his usual summer on St. John's ceremonial plant of the season . gossiping vein tells us , " the last Day ( 1694 ) I accidentally was walking in the pasture be- hind Montague ...
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The fern was a yet more important object of popular superstition at this season . It was supposed at one time to have neither flower nor seed , * the seed which lay on the back of the leaf being so small as to escape the sight of the ...
The fern was a yet more important object of popular superstition at this season . It was supposed at one time to have neither flower nor seed , * the seed which lay on the back of the leaf being so small as to escape the sight of the ...
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Even the snakes in Wales , Cornwall , and throughout all Scotland , celebrate this particular season by meeting together and perform a sort of magical rite after their own fashion , if it should not rather be called a species of glass ...
Even the snakes in Wales , Cornwall , and throughout all Scotland , celebrate this particular season by meeting together and perform a sort of magical rite after their own fashion , if it should not rather be called a species of glass ...
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At that time the æstival plants begin to flower , though it should be remembered that many of them blossomed at an earlier period , and indeed it is utterly impossible to draw a fixed and determinate line for the season of any vegetable ...
At that time the æstival plants begin to flower , though it should be remembered that many of them blossomed at an earlier period , and indeed it is utterly impossible to draw a fixed and determinate line for the season of any vegetable ...
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